Australia boss Mal Meninga says he’ll always urge his players to try their hand in Super League.
He’s arrived in the UK with his Kangaroos squad who start their World Cup defence against Fiji at Headingley next Saturday. It means rugby league fans here will get to see some of the sport’s greatest talent including NRL superstars James Tedesco, Latrell Mitchell and Nathan Cleary. Aussie legends like Meninga, Wally Lewis and Peter Sterling used to regularly play for English clubs in their off-season when rugby league was a winter sport.
But since the NRL and Super League calendars essentially aligned in 1996, it’s rare the best players come over. Meninga, one of the sport’s greatest-ever players, admitted: “It is a shame. We used to love coming here, not just coming over to play club footy but also for tours where the Kangaroos faced all the club sides, not just Great Britain Tests.
